Show L LROY At AtIN 1 IN THE SENA SENATE IE Republican l can Senators Deter Determined mined to Amend the Presidents Presidents dents Rate Bate Measure LIVELY DEBATE EXPECTED TILLMAN WILL PRESS THE HOUSE BILL The debate on the railroad rate bill will continue In the senate during the week The prospect is that this vill will more completely monopolize this week than it did last week for while under the original ar arrangement the rate bill could not be betaken betaken taken up until 2 each day its consideration can ean be now entered upon under tinder Senator Tillmans present policy every day as soon as the routine busi busine neilS ne such as the introduction of bills I and presentation of reports Is con Mr II TUlman Tiliman has announced his purpose of pressing the consideration lion tion of this bill to the exclusion of everything else when anyone is pro pre Jar pared to speak on it HAnd And he said when there is no one ready to speak I shall ask the senate to proceed to vote ote U upon Oll the measure Tillman Tiliman Not Unreasonable That he will not be unreasonable in this was shown by bO bOthe bythe the fact that he agreed on Thursday to take a until because that there a ar man many senators senator who will ask to upon lit bill before the final vote shall be betaken betaken taken no speeches had be n PrePared It l h the thc Intention to give everyone who really wants to speak peak an opportunity t to do ij but if when aU all the speeches arC made there should seem seeni to be bc a disposition to delay final action this effort will be antagonized e rue rhe speechmaking durIng the present eek eck will be inaugurated rated on Monday iby by an address by Senator McCreary ot or A number of other senators will be heard during the week in iii formal i speeches but the order of delivery has been determined II Being Prepared I Imon mon mong thoe tho who ho are ae preparing are Elkins Spooner Lodge Foster and Senator Spooner will discuSs the legal aspects of the dealing especially with the thc question of review or of the findings of C the int commerce commission by the United States courts Senator Lodge will viII devote himself especially to the of hit hi reasons for de desiring desiring siring the enlargement ement of the commis commission 4 sion as outlined in his amendment In Inan an all probability most of the speeches ill precipitate running d debates as did Mr 11 Rn Ders address of last Wednes Wednesday da day the is to ques quest t on most of the statements made on ontIe Uc tIe floor of the senate and from this time forward very f few w speakers will willbE willbe bE permitted to escape without inter interruption Working on Amendments Though much attention is being L to tn the presentation of the merits of the pro and con a still larger number of senators are devoting them selves even more assiduously to the preparation of amendments to the bill The Republican senators who do not the house bill are concentrating their efforts upon a review provision and have practically agreed upon th the fifth section of Senator substitute for the pending bill as the basis of their amendment This see sec section lion tion authorizes the taking of any mat matter matter ter decided by the interstate commerce commission to the United States circuit courts and requires the railroad corn com companies panics to deposit the difference be between between tween their own rates and the rates fixed by the commission pending the Sinai final adjudication of each particular case Senator Spooner has lIaS an amendment along the same lines but it goes into greater detail and the indications are that much of his phraseology may be accepted te The J are working In the maIn along the lines to secure an amendment which sh shall ll prohibit the lower courts from suspending rates fixed by the commIssion Senator TIll TIllman Tillman I man Is givIng his especial attention to tom m modifications whIch will prohibit the railroad companies from owning the I which the they carry of the House The national house bouse or representatives Ues tives will begIn the week b by disposing of the bill abolishing the grade of lieu lieutenant lieutenant tenant general in the army over which a filibuster was In when ad adJournment was taken Friday nIght The balance of Monday will be given to the passage of minor bills under sus suspension suspension pension of the rules Thursday has ha been set apart for the passage of war claims The other four ou legislative da day os Mr AIr Tawney chaIrman of the committee predicts will be re to complete the consideration ol of the legislative t which was before the house last eek Should this bill pass sooner Chair Chairman man Overstreet will at once bring in inthe inthe the appropriation bill whIch has been completed by his committee and make it the order of business The consideration of th the e bill wilt wIll I require some something thins like a week as the I question of railway mail subsidies will doubtless provoke discussion Although the has not been deter determined determined mined It Is expected the statehood bill will be brought Into the house on Wednesday and of Algeciras Conference The fact that the intern lonal Mo Moroccan conference at A has ad adjourned adjourned until March 20 has given rise to the hope among the influential neu neutral neutral delegates France and Ger Germany Germany many will in the meantime reach a basis of accord At Algeciras the symptoms of agreement are considered more favorable where the tires of neutral nati ns are energetic energetically ally endeavorIng to influence mutual concessions Bituminous operators to the number of about six hundred are expected to arrive In Indianapolis today to confer with the United Mine Workers of America The situation in the threat threatened threatened ened coal strike appears to be un unchanged unchanged changed the outcome now being in the hands of the miners The Ryan reso resolution lution having been practically rescind rescinded ed and the report of the scales corn com committee being favorable there is every Indication that conservatism will wili gov govern ern em the final deliberations of the miners and operators President Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor has called a meeting of the executive coun council counCi cil Ci of the Federation for today in Washington and though it is not definitely definitely announced that the coal strike will be discussed it is generally be believed believed that the meeting will consider the situation i II I Cable Chess Match The int intercollegiate cable chess match between Oxford and Cambridge e and Cornell Brown and the Un University of I Pennsylvania for th Isaac L Rice In hi International chess trophy troph will begin March 24 and laut lant one week Penn Pennsylvania sylvania syhania wil I have three representatives of the American team Brown two and Cornell one oHe The American end of the match will be contested from the Villa Julia Mr Ir Rices residence on River Riverside Riverside side Drive New York The New York Athletic clubs swim swimming swimming ming team which recently made such splendid records in the clubs indoor swimming tournament will be on March n 21 in Chicago to meet the swim swimmers mess mers of the Chicago Athletic aSsociation association tion in a series of dual events and on March larch 2 22 will compete in the tank of the Chicago Young Mens Christian association S SOn On March 23 and 24 the tho team will be bethe bethe the guests of the Missouri Athletic club of St SL Louis The national convention of the Asso Association elation of American Medical Colleges will be held in Pittsburg on March 19 From March 20 tc t ti the National con convention convention of American Railway Eri En Engineers of df Maintenance of Way association association will meet in Chicago The national convention pf f the odist Episcopal society of America will be hold held in Minneapolis March larch when reports will be sUb submitted milted arid and the years work discussed I Ic c I |